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The Node Time Machine – August 2010
Posted by Joyce Yu, on 27 August 2025
At the end of each month, I pick the same month from a random year from the past 15 years of the Node, and take a look at what people …Win £200 for your post on the Node
Posted by the Node, on 25 August 2025
A chance to win £200 by posting on the Node before 30 SeptemberSciArt profile: Kathryn Garner
Posted by the Node, on 22 August 2025
In this SciArt profile, we meet Kathryn Garner, whose passion for art and science has been linked throughout her life as she discovered her passion for science through her art. …Catch up on Development presents… webinar on stem cells and organoids
Posted by the Node, on 21 August 2025
Catch up on the Development presents… webinar, featuring talks from ECRs working on stem cells and organoids.Vote for your favourite image from the MBL Embryology course
Posted by the Node, on 19 August 2025
Browse through the gallery of the 20 images and vote for your favourite by Wednesday 3 September.Development’s Pathway to Independence programme: meet the 2025 fellows
Posted by the Node, on 19 August 2025
Earlier in 2025, we welcomed our third cohort of Development’s Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows – researchers whom we will be supporting as they transition from postdoc to Principal Investigator. …A Creative Approach to Science Communication – A Workshop by Anatolii Kozlov
Posted by the Node, on 18 August 2025
10 September 2025, 14.00-15:30 BST From the nitty-gritty aspects of research to the practice of science communication activities, creativity is an essential part of science. The aim of this webinar …Development presents… gene regulation
Posted by the Node, on 13 August 2025
Talks from two researchers working on gene regulation.Save the date: joint meeting of Development and the Human Developmental Biology Initiative
Posted by the Node, on 13 August 2025
Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos Development has been organising regular meetings on human development for over a decade. For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium …July in preprints
Posted by the Node, on 12 August 2025
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Most-read posts in June
- From Posters to Parades: Inside Woodstock.Bio² & Night Science Conference by Natanella Eliaz
- Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls by Joachim Goedhart
- Cellular Worlds – An Art Exhibition Inspired by Microscopic Universes
- On the Shape of Life: meeting report, SFBD meeting 2025 by Girish Kale
- #DanioDigest (May 2025) by Kevin Thiessen
- Squishing jellies!! by Yamini Ravichandran
- Lab meeting with the Silveira Lab
- SciArt profile: Henning Falk
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